Attachment for supporting feed-bags.



r PATBNTEDJULY 14, 1908. B. S. FREY &: D. J. MOLAUGHLIN- ATTAGHMENT'FOR SUPPORTING FEED BAGS. I APPLICATION IFLIQDMAY 31. 1907.

UNTTED STATES PATENT oEEioE.

ERWIN S. FREY AND DANIEL J. MCLAUGHLIN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

ATTACHMENT FOR SUPPORTING FEED-BAGS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 14, 1908.

Application filed May 31, 1907. Serial No. 376,532.

' provements in Attachments for Supporting Feed-Bags, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to devices for supporting feed bags and more particularly to such devices as are attachable to the shafts of a wagon, the object being to provide such a device capable of being adjusted to fit upon parts of shafts of different widths, sizes and inclinations; which shall be easily attachable and detachable; which shall support a feed bag firmly in place beneath the horses head; and which when detached may be folded into small compass.

The invention consists in the arrangement of parts and details of construction as shown in the accompanying drawings and more definitely setfor'th in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of an attachment in place on a pair of shafts. Fig. 2 is an enlarged side view of the rear end of one of the side bars. Fig. 3 is a top view of the same portion of the device.

Like reference letters designate like parts in the several views.

A designates a front cross bar havin rearwardly turned ends a and received 1n the slotted forward ends of the side bars B. These extend rearwardly and are of a length sufficient to be supported from the forward portions of the shafts I while in turn sup? porting a feed bag J in position beneath the head of the horse. At their rear ends the bars .B B are pivoted by vertical pivot bolts C C to the shaft-engaging bars D. D. By reason of the vertical pivots C C the rear bars D may be swung to any angle with the forward bars B and hence may be adjusted to suit any angle which the shafts may make with each other.

Any form of pivoted goint may be used in connecting bars D to but preferably the forward ends of the bars D are located immediately beneath the rear ends of bars B. This permits the forward ends of the bars D to be extended as at d and turned at an angle to the main portion of bars D. This angle is such that when the bars D are set'on a pair of shafts the extensions of will be beneath the bars B and in line with the direction of said bars, thus giving support to the bars B and lessening the bending strain on the joint.

It will be seen from the drawing that the bolt of C is an ordinary pivot bolt, while C, shown enlarged in Fig. 2, is a clamping bolt, having the key 0 whereby it may be turned to clamp the bars B D on that side rigidly together. The device might be made with 'two clamping bolts but one is suflicient, as

when the angle of the bars is adjusted and the clamp set on one side, the other side bars are held from movement.

The rear or shaft-engaging bars D are each provided with the relatively wide shaft hooks E and F. The hook F is located .at the rear of bar D and engages under the shaft I. It is a fixed hook. The hook E is, however, adjustably attached to the bar D and projects up and over the shaft. The shank of the hook is slotted as at e and through the slot and into the bar D passes the clamping screw G having the key (1. By setting the hooks E up or down and clam ing them, the bars D may be adjusted leve to any ordinary inclination of shaft, and thus the attachment be held level and the feed bag in the right position. Preferably the hooks are each provided with a pointed projection H which will enter slightly into the shaft to more firmly hold the attachment in place.

In order to support the feed bag J, the cross bar A and the side bars B may have hooks b adapted to engage with hooks or eyes on the bag.

It will be seen that by reason of the inturned ends a of the bar A, either one of the bars B may be turned parallel with the bar A and that the manner in which the rear bars D are pivoted to B permits the rear bars to be turned inward beneath the bars B. Thus our device may be conveniently folded into small compass for carrying in a vehicle.

The advantages of our invention lie in this ability to be folded up; in its capability of adjustment to suit any angle of the shafts to each other,the shaft-engaging bars D being always parallel with the shafts; the simple means whereby the attachment may be adjusted to suit any ordinary inclination of the shafts, and the rigidity of the parts when clamped in place. These are most essential in devices of this character, as shafts sometimes spread away from each other and sometimes are convergent, and are supported at varying degrees of inclination depending on the height of the horse.

All these circumstances have to be considered in a practicable device.

Having described our invention what we claim is:

1. A feed bag support, comprising side bars pivotally connected at their forward ends, and rear shaft-engaging bars pivoted to the rear ends of the side bars for movement in a horizontal plane, said shaft-engaging bars being each provided with reversely turned hooks adapted respectively to hook over and under a shaft, one of said hooks being vertically adjustable.

2. A feed bag support, comprising side bars pivotally connected at their forward ends, and rear shaft-engaging bars pivoted to the rear ends of the side bars for movement in a horizontal plane, said shaft-emgaging bars being each provided at the forward end with a hook engaging over the top of a'shaft, and adjustable vertically, and at the rear end with a fixed hook engaging beneath the said shaft.

3. A feed bag support comprising side bars pivotally connected at their forward ends, and rear shaft-engaging bars pivoted to the rear ends of the side bars for movement in a horizontal plane, said shaft-engaging bars having a joint supporting extension'at its forward end forward of the pivotal point inclined to the horizontal axis of said bar, and said shaft engaging-bars being each provided with reversely turned hooks adapted respectively to hook over and under a shaft, one of said hooks being vertically adturned hooks adapted to hook over and under a shaft.

5. A feed bag support, comprising a front cross bar having rearwardly turned ends, side bars pivotally connected to the ends of the cross bar, rear shaft-engaging bars pivoted to the rear ends of the side bars for movement in a horizontal plane, said shaftengaging bars being each provided at the. forward end with a hook engaging over the top of a shaft, and adjustable vertically, and at the rear end with a fixed hook engaging beneath the said shaft.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. this 4th day of Hay, 1907.

ERWVIN S. FREY. DANIEL J. MOLAUGHI l N Witnesses JAs. F. NAGLE, Fnilnnnro B. VVRIGJITv 

